[WikiEN-l] David is on Channel 4 tonight re MS issue

[Sage Ross]

On 1/26/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> This was a MAJOR news story and it came completely out of the blue.
> But it is an ongoing problem for Wikipedia - we don't want companies
> fearful of dealing with us in case they get the sort of bad press this
> issue got Microsoft and Doug Mahugh. How can we get better at this,
> quickly?
>
>
> - d.

Check out this article:

http://www.tmcnet.com/news/2007/01/26/2285485.htm

Apparently Mathias Schindler has been in contact with MS, giving a
different line.

For what it's worth, I don't see that Microsoft did anything obviously
wrong.  At this point, we definitely need a clear and responsive
system for coordinating paid editing.  We've recognized for a while
now that paid editing will happen.  It will definitely be in our best
interest to set up a system to facilitate it and give a sense of
fairness to entities like MS who want to do things above-the-board.

-Sage